英文短篇美文

时间：2023-08-21 23:24:14 文/马振华老师美文学文网www.xuewenya.com

　　【一】人生

　　All that is beautiful poems and passages of life

　　things do not change;we change.sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

　　万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想

　　think it over……好好想想……

　　today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;

　　今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

　　we spend more,but enjoy less;

　　我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

　　we have bigger houses,but smaller famillies;

　　我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

　　we have more compromises,but less time;

　　我们妥协更多，时间更少；

　　we have more knowledge,but less judgment;

　　我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

　　we have more medicines,but less health;

　　我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

　　we have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values;

　　我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

　　we talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much;

　　我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

　　we reached the moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;

　　我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；

　　we have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space;

　　我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

　　we have highter income,but less morals;

　　我们的.收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；

　　these are times with more liberty,but less joy;

　　我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；

　　we have much more food,but less nutrition;

　　我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；

　　these are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase;

　　现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；

　　these are times of finer houses,but more broken homes;

　　现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；

　　that‘s why i propose,that as of today;

　　这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；

　　you do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a special occasion.

　　不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；

　　search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;

　　寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；

　　spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love;

　　花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方；

　　life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival;

　　生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；

　　use your crystal goblets.do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it.

　　举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！

　　remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday";

　　从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；

　　let‘s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!

　　曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！

　　let‘s tell our families and friends how much we love them;

　　告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；

　　do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;

　　不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；

　　every day,every hour,and every minute is special;

　　每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；

　　and you don't know if it will be your last.

　　你无从知道这是否最后刻。

　　【二】黄昏之美

　　Looking into the sunset I can't help but notice

　　that despite her beauty,

　　a sense of struggle and hopeless surround the sky .

　　Deep inside you realize that this day is gone,

　　and everything that It had brought is lost forever.

　　Every thought,every action,every dream,every hope,

　　every sight,every sound is gone.

　　There is no chance of every being returned the same,

　　exactly the same.

　　For every moment has a limit to what it can capture,

　　Every memory has a limit to what it had retrieve.

　　凝望夕阳，我无法抑止地看到，

　　无论她是如何的美丽动人，

　　挣扎和绝望依然萦绕天幕，

　　内心深处，你明白今日已逝，

　　它所带来的一切也永远消失了，

　　每一脉思想，每一次行动，每一个梦想，每一线希望，

　　每一幅景象，每一缕声音，都消逝而去，

　　一切都不可能还复如初，

　　和原来一模一样，

　　只因每一个时刻所能捕捉的东西是有限的，

　　甚至每一段记忆所能缅怀的一切也是有限的。

　　And the colours in the sky try to entertain us.

　　one last act with painted smiles,

　　for they too know that nothing can be done to save the day.

　　So futile their attempt to comfort our fear of the night.

　　our horror as we try to find our way,

　　like children who wanderinto a forest and never return.

　　I am ingratiatedby the sunset because of

　　her sensitivity as she tries to push the darkness

　　back for just a moment more.

　　But like so many times before....to no avail!

　　而天空中的绮丽色彩努力让我们快乐起来，

　　最后上演的是五彩缤纷的微笑，

　　因为它们也知晓，做什么都无法留住时日，

　　它们想安慰我们对夜的恐惧，而又如此徒劳无益，

　　虽然恐惧，我们依然寻找出路，

　　宛若在林中的孩心，彷徨不知归路，

　　我满心欢喜，只因夕阳的敏感，

　　她竭力将黑暗推回，仅仅为了再多驻留一刻，

　　可却犹如以往，一切都无济于事....

　　【三】A Box Full Of Kisses

　　The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy.”

　　有这样一个故事，爸爸因为三岁的女儿浪费了一卷金色的包装纸而惩罚了她。家里很缺钱，当孩子想要用包装纸装饰一个挂在圣诞树上的盒子时，爸爸生气了。然而，第二天早上小女孩把盒子作为礼物送给了爸爸，“这是给你的，爸爸。”

　　The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."

　　女儿的这个行为让爸爸感到尴尬。但是当他发现盒子是空的时候，他的怒火再一次燃烧了。他对女儿喊道，“难道你不知道给别人礼物的时候，里面应该放有东西吗?”多女孩抬头看着父亲，眼里含着泪水，“爸爸，盒子不是空的。我把吻放在了盒子里，都是给你的，爸爸。”

　　The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness. Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

　　爸爸感动极了，他搂住女儿，恳请她的原谅。之后不久，一场事故夺走了小女孩的生命。据说，父亲便将那个小金盒子放在床头，一直陪伴着他的余生。无论何时他感到气馁或者遇到难办的事情，他就会打开礼盒，取出一个假想的吻，记起漂亮女儿给予了自己特殊的爱。

　　In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses... from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

　　从一个非常真实的意义上说，我们每个人都被赠与过一个无形的金色礼盒，那里面装满了来自子女，家人，朋友及上帝无条件的爱与吻。人们所能拥有的最珍贵的礼物莫过于此了。

　　【四】Youth

　　Youth is not a time of life; itis a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and suppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of theemotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

　　Youth means a temperamentalpredominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over thelove of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobodygrows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

　　Yearsmay wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear,self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is inevery human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’snext and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and myheart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty,hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you areyoung.

　　When your aerials are down, andyour spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, thenyou’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catchwaves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.

　　青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

　　青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

　　岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

　　无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

　　一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

英文短篇美文

【一】人生

【二】黄昏之美

【三】A Box Full Of Kisses

【四】Youth

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